Film Index
American cinema: Romance/Comedy
A Countess from Hong Kong (1967)
Charles Chaplin
Ogden Mears is a wealthy American diplomat who is soon to be made ambassador to Saudi Arabia. During a stopover in Hong Kong, he meets Natasha, a Russian countess who scrapes a dubious living as a dancer and prostitute...
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Charles Chaplin
A Damsel in Distress (1937)
George Stevens
Everyone at Tottleigh Castle knows that Lady Alyce Marshmorton is about to get married, but no one knows for certain who the lucky man will be...
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George Stevens
A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
Charles Crichton
London gangster George Thomason has masterminded the perfect jewel robbery, which he is about to put into action with his henchman Ken Pile, an animal-lover with a crippling stutter, and a pair of Americans - Wanda Gerschwitz and Otto West...
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Charles Crichton
A Life Less Ordinary (1997)
Danny Boyle
Robert Lewis is a lowly Scottish janitor who scrapes a meagre living by cleaning the offices of multimillionaire American businessman Elliott Naville...
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Danny Boyle
A Night at the Opera (1935)
Sam Wood
By donating money to Otis B. Driftwood, an opera promoter of dubious repute, wealthy widow Mrs Claypool hopes to buy her way into high society...
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Sam Wood
Adam's Rib (1949)
George Cukor
District Attorney Adam Bonner is far from pleased when he is called upon to prosecute Doris Attinger, a young woman who shot and wounded her husband when she found him in the arms of his mistress... [More...]
George Cukor
District Attorney Adam Bonner is far from pleased when he is called upon to prosecute Doris Attinger, a young woman who shot and wounded her husband when she found him in the arms of his mistress... [More...]
An American Werewolf in London (1981)
John Landis
David Kessler and Jack Goodman are two American college backpackers who decide to make a tour of Europe. Where better to begin than the bleak, soggy Yorkshire moors... [More...]
John Landis
David Kessler and Jack Goodman are two American college backpackers who decide to make a tour of Europe. Where better to begin than the bleak, soggy Yorkshire moors... [More...]
Anchors Aweigh (1945)
George Sidney
Returning home to a hero's welcome after WWII, navy personnel Clarence Doolittle and Joe Brady can hardly wait to get ashore and extract every last morsel of pleasure from their leave... [More...]
George Sidney
Returning home to a hero's welcome after WWII, navy personnel Clarence Doolittle and Joe Brady can hardly wait to get ashore and extract every last morsel of pleasure from their leave... [More...]
Angel on My Shoulder (1946)
Archie Mayo
On his release from prison, Eddie Kagle's only thought is to recover the ill-gotten gains from the robbery that led to his arrest... [More...]
Archie Mayo
On his release from prison, Eddie Kagle's only thought is to recover the ill-gotten gains from the robbery that led to his arrest... [More...]
The April Fools (1969)
Stuart Rosenberg
Howard Brubaker, a successful company man, is trapped in a loveless marriage to an unsympathetic wife, Phyllis. At a party hosted by his boss, Ted, Howard is encouraged to pick up a woman and ends up choosing Ted's attractive French wife, Catherine... [More...]
Stuart Rosenberg
Howard Brubaker, a successful company man, is trapped in a loveless marriage to an unsympathetic wife, Phyllis. At a party hosted by his boss, Ted, Howard is encouraged to pick up a woman and ends up choosing Ted's attractive French wife, Catherine... [More...]
April in Paris (1952)
David Butler
A junior government official, Winthrop Putnam, sees his career aspirations evaporate when he realises that he has invited the wrong woman to represent the American theatre at an exposition in Paris... [More...]
David Butler
A junior government official, Winthrop Putnam, sees his career aspirations evaporate when he realises that he has invited the wrong woman to represent the American theatre at an exposition in Paris... [More...]
Arthur (1981)
Steve Gordon
Arthur Bach is a millionaire playboy who spends most of his time cruising New York in his chauffeur-driven limousine, tanking up on hard liquor at any bar he comes across... [More...]
Steve Gordon
Arthur Bach is a millionaire playboy who spends most of his time cruising New York in his chauffeur-driven limousine, tanking up on hard liquor at any bar he comes across... [More...]
The Artist (2011)
Michel Hazanavicius
Hollywood, 1927. George Valentin is a star of silent cinema on whom the sun has never ceased to shine. But the arrival of sound looks set to send him into obscurity... [More...]
Michel Hazanavicius
Hollywood, 1927. George Valentin is a star of silent cinema on whom the sun has never ceased to shine. But the arrival of sound looks set to send him into obscurity... [More...]
The Awful Truth (1937)
Leo McCarey
Jerry Warriner returns home after his holiday to find that his wife Lucy has apparently got herself romantically involved with her music teacher, Armand Duvalle... [More...]
Leo McCarey
Jerry Warriner returns home after his holiday to find that his wife Lucy has apparently got herself romantically involved with her music teacher, Armand Duvalle... [More...]
Bachelor Mother (1939)
Garson Kanin
Polly Parrish works as a shop assistant in a New York department store. On the day she learns she is to be dismissed she manages to get herself mistaken for the mother of a baby that has been abandoned on the steps of an orphanage... [More...]
Garson Kanin
Polly Parrish works as a shop assistant in a New York department store. On the day she learns she is to be dismissed she manages to get herself mistaken for the mother of a baby that has been abandoned on the steps of an orphanage... [More...]
Barefoot in the Park (1967)
Gene Saks
Paul and Corie Bratter are a pair of young newlyweds who can hardly wait to set up home together. Unfortunately, the home that Corie has chosen, a tiny fifth floor apartment in Greenwich Village, isn't quite what Paul, a straitlaced trainee attorney, had in mind... [More...]
Gene Saks
Paul and Corie Bratter are a pair of young newlyweds who can hardly wait to set up home together. Unfortunately, the home that Corie has chosen, a tiny fifth floor apartment in Greenwich Village, isn't quite what Paul, a straitlaced trainee attorney, had in mind... [More...]
Bell Book and Candle (1958)
Richard Quine
One Christmas Eve in New York, Gillian Holroyd suddenly discovers that she is attracted to her neighbour, Shepherd Henderson... [More...]
Richard Quine
One Christmas Eve in New York, Gillian Holroyd suddenly discovers that she is attracted to her neighbour, Shepherd Henderson... [More...]
Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962)
Charles Walters
Kitty Wonder manages a travelling circus with her father, their main attraction being a performing elephant named Jumbo. With the circus heavily in debt, Kitty struggles to keep the show on the road, not an easy task when her father keeps gambling away their earnings... [More...]
Charles Walters
Kitty Wonder manages a travelling circus with her father, their main attraction being a performing elephant named Jumbo. With the circus heavily in debt, Kitty struggles to keep the show on the road, not an easy task when her father keeps gambling away their earnings... [More...]
Borderline (1950)
William A. Seiter
Madeleine Haley, an officer in the Los Angeles Police Department, volunteers to go undercover in Mexico to expose a drugs smuggling operation orchestrated by Pete Ritchie... [More...]
William A. Seiter
Madeleine Haley, an officer in the Los Angeles Police Department, volunteers to go undercover in Mexico to expose a drugs smuggling operation orchestrated by Pete Ritchie... [More...]
Born Yesterday (1950)
George Cukor
Not content with having made a fortune through his scrap metal business, Harry Brock arrives in Washington DC intending to expand his empire with the help of one or two corruptible congressmen... [More...]
George Cukor
Not content with having made a fortune through his scrap metal business, Harry Brock arrives in Washington DC intending to expand his empire with the help of one or two corruptible congressmen... [More...]
The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941)
William Keighley
In the hope of landing himself a nationwide publicity coup, bandleader Alan Brice persuades his fiancée, the heiress Joan Winfield, to elope with him so that they can get married... [More...]
William Keighley
In the hope of landing himself a nationwide publicity coup, bandleader Alan Brice persuades his fiancée, the heiress Joan Winfield, to elope with him so that they can get married... [More...]
The Bride Walks Out (1936)
Leigh Jason
Ignoring his girlfriend Carolyn's protestations that they cannot possibly live on his paltry salary of thirty-five dollars a week, Michael Martin marries her in haste and soon lives to regret it... [More...]
Leigh Jason
Ignoring his girlfriend Carolyn's protestations that they cannot possibly live on his paltry salary of thirty-five dollars a week, Michael Martin marries her in haste and soon lives to regret it... [More...]
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Howard Hawks
To secure a million dollar donation for his natural history museum, palaeontologist David Huxley finds he has to play a round of golf with his donor's agent, Mr Peabody... [More...]
Howard Hawks
To secure a million dollar donation for his natural history museum, palaeontologist David Huxley finds he has to play a round of golf with his donor's agent, Mr Peabody... [More...]
Call Me Madam (1953)
Walter Lang
The United States needs to appoint a new ambassador to the European country of Lichtenburg and who better than the oil tycoon and society queen Sally Adams... [More...]
Walter Lang
The United States needs to appoint a new ambassador to the European country of Lichtenburg and who better than the oil tycoon and society queen Sally Adams... [More...]
Can-Can (1960)
Walter Lang
Paris, 1896. In Montmartre, Simone Pistache runs one of the hottest nightspots in town, a dancehall where the outlawed can-can is frequently performed... [More...]
Walter Lang
Paris, 1896. In Montmartre, Simone Pistache runs one of the hottest nightspots in town, a dancehall where the outlawed can-can is frequently performed... [More...]
Carefree (1938)
Mark Sandrich
In a desperate attempt to get his fiancée Amanda to agree to marry him, Stephen Arden asks his psychiatrist friend, Dr Tony Flagg, to analyse her... [More...]
Mark Sandrich
In a desperate attempt to get his fiancée Amanda to agree to marry him, Stephen Arden asks his psychiatrist friend, Dr Tony Flagg, to analyse her... [More...]
Charade (1963)
Stanley Donen
Reggie Lambert returns from a holiday in the French Alps to learn that her husband has been murdered, thrown from a train in his pyjamas... [More...]
Stanley Donen
Reggie Lambert returns from a holiday in the French Alps to learn that her husband has been murdered, thrown from a train in his pyjamas... [More...]
Christmas in July (1940)
Preston Sturges
Jimmy MacDonald is a low-paid clerk in the Baxter Coffee House Company. Desperately short of cash, he enters a rival company's slogan competition, and expects to win the $25,000 prize... [More...]
Preston Sturges
Jimmy MacDonald is a low-paid clerk in the Baxter Coffee House Company. Desperately short of cash, he enters a rival company's slogan competition, and expects to win the $25,000 prize... [More...]
Desk Set (1957)
Walter Lang
Bunny Watson runs the reference department of the Federal Broadcasting Network, leading a team that provides answers swiftly and accurately on a whole range of topics to anyone else in the company... [More...]
Walter Lang
Bunny Watson runs the reference department of the Federal Broadcasting Network, leading a team that provides answers swiftly and accurately on a whole range of topics to anyone else in the company... [More...]
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex - But Were Afraid to Ask (1972)
Woody Allen
This helpful guide to sex will address some of the burning questions you have long pondered but have been too nervous to seek answers to... [More...]
Woody Allen
This helpful guide to sex will address some of the burning questions you have long pondered but have been too nervous to seek answers to... [More...]